The Fanita

BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

This libel is filed by the owner of the schooner Samuel G. Miles, against the steamship Fan-ita, to recover for the damages sustained by the libellant through a collision which occurred between the two vessels in the East river, between New York and Brooklyn, at about 9 o’clock, p. m., on the 20th of August, 1870. The schooner had come around the-Battery, and was bound to Williamsburgh. ■ with a cargo of brick. The steamship was a propeller of 434 tons burden, and was-bound down the river on a voyage to Philadelphia. The wind was north west to west north west, and…